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(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.864, Population Research; 

93.865, Research for Mothers and Children; 

93.929, Center for Medical Rehabilitation 

Research; 93.209, Contraception and 

Infertility Loan Repayment Program, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: February 2, 2024. 

Lauren A. Fleck, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket Number DHS–2024–0004] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: DHS Civil Rights Evaluation 

Tool, Collection Instrument DHS Form 

3095, OMB Control No. 1601–0024 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS). 

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for 

comments; revision request. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland 

Security will submit the following 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until April 8, 2024. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.1. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number Docket 

#DHS–2024–0004, at: 

Æ Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Please follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number Docket #DHS–2024– 

0004. All comments received will be 

posted without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Recipients 

of Federal financial assistance from the 

Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) are required to meet certain legal 

requirements relating to 

nondiscrimination and 

nondiscriminatory use of Federal funds. 

Those requirements include ensuring 

that entities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the DHS do not deny 

benefits or services, or otherwise 

discriminate on the basis of race, color, 

national origin, disability, age, sex, or 

religion, in accordance with the 

following authorities: 

• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 

1964 (Title VI) Public Law 88–352, 42 

U.S.C. 2000d–1 et seq., and the 

Department’s implementing regulation, 

6 CFR part 21 and 44 CFR part 7, which 

prohibit discrimination on the grounds 

of race, color, or national origin by 

recipients of Federal financial 

assistance. Title VI, through its 

prohibition against discrimination on 

the basis of national origin, requires 

recipients to take reasonable steps to 

provide meaningful access to persons 

who are limited English proficient 

(LEP). See Guidance to Federal 

Financial Assistance Recipients 

Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against 

National Origin Discrimination 

Affecting Limited English Proficient 

Persons, 76 FR. 21755–21768 (April 18, 

2011). 

• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973 (Section 504), Public Law 

93–112, as amended by Public Law 93– 

516, 29 U.S.C. 794, which prohibits 

discrimination on the basis of disability 

by recipients of Federal financial 

assistance. 

• Title IX of the Education 

Amendments of 1972 (title IX), 20 

U.S.C. 1681 et seq., and the 

Department’s implementing regulations, 

6 CFR part 17, and 44 CFR part 19, 

which prohibits discrimination on the 

basis of sex in education program and 

activities received Federal financial 

assistance. 

• Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 

Public Law 94–135, 42 U.S.C. 6101 et 

seq., and the Department implementing 

regulation at 44 CFR part 7, which 

prohibits discrimination on the basis of 

age by recipients of Federal financial 

assistance. 

• U.S. Department of Homeland 

Security regulation 6 CFR part 19, 

which prohibits organizations that 

receive financial assistance from DHS 

for a social service program from 

discriminating against beneficiaries on 

the basis of religion or religious belief, 

a refusal to hold a religious belief, or a 

refusal to attend or participate in a 

religious practice. 

The aforementioned civil rights 

authorities also prohibit retaliatory acts 

against individuals for participating or 

opposing discrimination in a complaint, 

investigation, or other proceeding 

related to prohibited discrimination. 

DHS has an obligation to enforce 

nondiscrimination requirements to 

ensure that its federally assisted 

programs and activities are 

administered in a nondiscriminatory 

manner. In order to carry out its 

enforcement responsibilities, DHS must 

obtain a signed assurance of compliance 

and collect and review information from 

recipients to ascertain their compliance 

with applicable requirements. DHS 

implementing regulations and the 

Department of Justice regulation 

Coordination of Non-discrimination in 

Federally Assisted Program, 28 CFR part 

42, provide for the collection of data 

and information from recipients (see 28 

CFR 42.406). 

DHS uses DHS Form 3095: DHS Civil 

Rights Evaluation Tool as the primary 

tool to implement this information 

collection. DHS is revising the 

collection, changing Section 1 of the 

form on Instructions to extend the 

deadline for initial submissions from 30 

days of receipt of the Notice of Award 

to 60 days; to update the method of 

submission from email to an online 

portal, and to make other minor 

clarifying revisions. DHS is also making 

minor changes to Section 2 of the form 

on Organization Information to remove 

the fields for reporting Grant Agreement 

Number and Federal Award 

Identification Number; DHS now 

obtains that information from 

Department data sources. In addition, 

DHS is making minor changes to 

Section 5 of the form on Additional 

Information to streamline 

communication with recipients by 

providing a single, centralized point of 

contact for questions and technical 

assistance. Further, a minor change to 

Section 2 of the form on Organization 

Information to revise the field for 

reporting the organization’s DUNS 

Number to Unique Entity ID. In 2022, 

the Federal Government stopped using 

DUNS Number to uniquely identify 

organizations and transitioned to using 

Unique Entity ID as the official 

identifier for entities doing business 

with the U.S. Government. 

DHS uses the form to collect civil 

rights related information from all 

recipients of federal financial assistance 

from the Department. Recipients are 

non-Federal entities that receive Federal 

financial assistance in the form of a 

grant, cooperative agreement, or other 

type of financial assistance directly from 

the Department and not through another 

recipient or ‘‘pass-through’’ entity. This 

information collection does not apply to 

subrecipients, Federal contractors 

(unless the contract includes the 

provision of financial assistance), nor 

the ultimate beneficiaries of services, 

financial aid, or other benefits from the 

Department. 

Recipients are required to provide the 

information 60 days from receipt of 

Notice of Award. Recipient of multiple 


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awards of DHS financial assistance only 

submit one completed form for their 

organization, not per award. Recipient 

are required to complete the form once 

every two years if they have an active 

award, not every time a grant is 

awarded. Entities whose award does not 

run a full two years are required to 

provide the information again if they 

receive a subsequent award more than 

two (2) years after the prior award. In 

responding to Section 4: Required 

Information, which contains the bulk of 

the information collection, if the 

recipient’s responses have not changed 

in the two-year period since their initial 

submission, the recipient does not need 

to resubmit the information. Instead, the 

recipient will indicate ‘‘no change’’ for 

each applicable item. 

The purpose of the information 

collection is to advise recipients of their 

civil rights obligations and collect 

pertinent civil rights information to 

ascertain if the recipient has in place 

adequate policies and procedures to 

achieve compliance, and to determine 

what, if any, further action may be 

needed (technical assistance, training, 

compliance review, etc.) to ensure the 

recipient is able to meet its civil rights 

requirements and will carry out its 

programs and activities in a 

nondiscriminatory manner. 

Over the past three years, DHS has 

used the information collected via the 

DHS Civil Rights Evaluation Tool to 

identify gaps and deficiencies in 

recipient programs and directly help 

recipients address these gaps and 

deficiencies by providing technical 

assistance on developing or improving 

policies and procedures to prevent 

discrimination and ensure accessibility. 

DHS is transitioning the submission 

process from an email-based system to 

a new online portal platform. The portal 

will streamline and improve the 

submission process by allowing 

recipients to view the requirements 

contained in the form, report civil rights 

complaint and lawsuit data in a 

standardized chart, upload responsive 

documents and supporting information, 

and access technical assistance 

templates and other resources all in one 

space. DHS anticipates that records or 

files that will be used to respond to the 

information collection are already 

maintained in electronic format by the 

recipient, so providing the information 

electronically further minimizes 

administrative burden. 

When fully deployed, recipients will 

also be able to view and update contact 

information, the status of their 

submission with DHS, and submission 

due dates. If the recipient is unable to 

submit their information electronically, 

alternative arrangements will be made 

to submit responses in hard copy. 

The information collection will 

impact some small entities (e.g., nonprofit service providers, local fire 

departments, etc.); however, recipients 

will only be required to provide this 

information once every two years, not 

every time a grant is awarded. 

Additionally, in responding to Section 

4: Required Information, if the 

recipient’s responses have not changed 

in the two-year period since their initial 

submission, the recipient does not need 

to resubmit the information. This will 

dramatically reduce the administrative 

burden on recipients after the initial 

submission. Additionally, DHS will 

further minimize burden on recipients 

by making available sample policies, 

procedures, and templates to assist 

recipients in completing Section 4 of the 

Form, and providing technical 

assistance directly to the recipient as 

needed. 

In accordance with the authorities 

identified above, the Department is 

required to obtain a signed assurance of 

compliance from recipients and to 

ensure that its federally assisted 

programs and activities are 

administered in a nondiscriminatory 

manner. If the information collection is 

not conducted or is conducted less 

frequently, the Department will not be 

able to fulfill its obligations to ascertain 

recipient compliance and enforce 

nondiscrimination in recipient 

programs. This could lead to the award 

of Federal financial assistance to 

recipients that are not complying with 

Federal civil rights law, and the 

perpetuation of discrimination in the 

provision of benefits and services to 

members of the public. 

There are no confidentiality 

assurances associated with this 

collection. The only privacy-sensitive 

information the form collects are the 

names of Point of Contacts from 

recipient organizations. Coverage for the 

collection of this information is 

provided under a Department Privacy 

Impact Assessment, DHS/ALL/PIA–006 

General Contacts List. 

DHS is seeking a revision of the 

collection for another three-year period, 

proposing changes to Section 1 

Instructions, Section 2 Organization 

Information and Section 5 Additional 

Information. The changes to Sections 1, 

2, and 5 do not impact the burden 

analysis for the collection. The changes 

in burden reflect the increase in the 

number of entities that are required to 

respond to the collection (as a result of 

increased Department grantmaking), 

increase in hourly wage rates as 

reported by BLS in the 2022 National 

Occupational Employment and Wage 

Estimates, increase in hourly wage rates 

for Federal staff as reported by Office of 

Personnel Management for 2023, 

increases in the number of staff 

supporting the program, and 

development of an online portal to 

streamline and modernize the 

submission process. Lastly, DHS is 

changing the name of the collection 

from ‘‘DHS Civil Rights Compliance 

Form’’ to ‘‘DHS Civil Rights Evaluation 

Tool.’’ 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

which: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Analysis: 

Agency: Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS). 

Title: DHS Civil Rights Evaluation 

Tool. 

OMB Number: 1601–0024. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Entities Receiving 

Federal Financial Assistance from DHS. 

Number of Respondents: 5,000. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 3 

hours. 

Total Burden Hours: 10,050. 

Robert Porter Dorr, 

Executive Director, Business Management 

Directorate. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02588 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9112–FL–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7092–N–18] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Office of Administration, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD). 


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